cmdline should not be cached

[giampaolo]

From Psihon...@gmail.com on September 24, 2012 17:27:01

After version 0.5, property `cmdline` of Process is cacheable. 
Could you explain why so? 
There are a lot of situations, when process `cmdline` contains some valuable 
information, which should be processed/validated. 

Thanks.

p.s. update psutil from 0.4.1 to 0.6.1, with cacheable `cmdline`, completely 
crashed our mail fetching monitoring system :)

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=331

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on September 24, 2012 10:15:08

Cmdline is cached bacause is not supposed to change during the entire lifetime 
of the process (the same applies for process pid, ppid, name an exe).
How exactly your code was affected by this change?
The only difference in terms of compatibility should be that in case the 
process disappears NoSuchProcess is no longer raised.

[giampaolo]

From ruib...@gmail.com on January 21, 2013 19:18:38

runsvdir (of runit) alters its .cmdline to include recent stderr messages from 
all child processes.

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on January 22, 2013 01:34:21

Status: Accepted

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on February 27, 2013 07:25:17

Fixed in r1570 .

Status: FixedInSVN
Labels: Milestone-0.6.2

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on March 02, 2013 04:13:18

Updated csets after the SVN -> Mercurial migration: r1570 == revision 
9d2f1e41eee3

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on April 07, 2013 18:21:49

Status: FixedInHG

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on April 11, 2013 02:17:39

Labels: -Milestone-0.6.2 Milestone-0.7.0

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on April 12, 2013 11:21:26

Status: Fixed